DJ Hero controller

There's something weird about all this, don't you think? The complexity gap between the gadget and its Hero controller has shrunk--even as it powers-up the brain-melting recursive virtuality of toy instruments controlling virtual representations of real instruments using a frenetic crypto-performance that it itself staggeringly hard to master.

How long until Guitar Hero Hero? How long until we have Game Hero, in which an on-screen character plays a game, and you have a game controller modeled on a game controller? And where Jean Baudrillard punches you in the dick when you lose.

I recall having something like this for BeatMania back in the day. Maybe it was a Japan only thing. Thats embarrassing come to think of it. This kinda thing is OK in the hands of a 10 year old but thats about the limit.